21 January, 2009

Reading/listening/watching

Reading: I'm engrossed in A.S. Byatt's The virgin in the garden, which is like a sort of twentieth century Charlotte Brontë.

Listening: Still having a kind of music block. Still, I have student stand-by tickets to the Royal Ballet's La Bayadère tomorrow, which should be good: it's not a ballet I know.

Watching: nearing the end of Deadwood season 3, and already sad that it's nearly finished. At the weekend I watched most of Cromwell, with lovely lovely Alec Guinness and Richard Harris, and the recent Bond film, which featured some excellent haircuts.

2 comments:

I first read it aged 16 or 17, and thought Frederica was perfection incarnate. The older I get the less I want to be her - and the more interesting other characters become. I think I'm really more of a Stephanie in the end.